The hypnotic tune, led by a playful bassline and a delightful vocal melody from singer Jonathan Higgs, sees the band exploring familiar but welcome territory, with swirling synths, mesmerising drum beats and falsetto vocals. Speaking on the subject matter of the tune, the band said, according to a press statement: “The song is about recovering from trauma, by focussing on both hedonism and solitude.”

“Pizza Boy” is the fourth single from the group’s upcoming album, having been preceded by “I Want a Love Like This”, “Bad Friday” and “Teletype”. The album’s lead single “Bad Friday” was released in early February, and came alongside the news that the band had used A.I. to help write their new album; a unique approach that explains the record’s title. According to NME, the group came up with a programme that used “the entire terms and conditions of LinkedIn, the ancient epic poem Beowulf, 400,000 4Chan forum posts and the teachings of Confucius”. Certainly embracing the “experimental” angle in as many ways as possible.

Everything Everything’s  previous single was released back in March, and is a feverish, musical wind tunnel of ambient pads and plucked synthesiser leads, with an equally trippy, stylised music video. The group said of the tune: “This song started as a challenge Alex set Jon to demo a ‘4-chord banger’ that he could put through a particular rhythmic processor on his home-made modular synthesiser. It’s another very instinctive and impulsive composition, talking about a new relationship and a feel of optimism and possibility.” You can view the video for “I Want a Love Like This” below.

Everything Everything will be playing a series of shows later this month in support of the release of Raw Data Feel, and will be headlining a show at Leceiester’s O2 Academy on Friday the 19^th of May. Full UK tour information can be viewed down below, and tickets can be purchased at this link.

19/05/2022 – Banquet- Kingston
20/05 – O2 Academy- Leicester
21/05 – Phase 1- Liverpool
22/05 – Rough Trade- Bristol
23/05 – Rough Trade- Nottingham
24/05 – Sub 89- Reading
25/05 – Rough Trade East- London
26/05 – Vinilo- Southampton
02/08 – Altes Hallenbad Und Reichenfeldpark- Austria
03/08 – Arena Wien- Grosse Halle
05-07/08– Wide Skies & Butterflies- Fakenham
11-14/08 – 110 Above Festival- Atherstone
24/09- Float Along Festival- Sheffield

In an interview with NME, frontman Johnathan Higgs explained, “This song is about being a victim of violence, explaining it away through the gauze of a ‘crazy night out.’” Adding, “We wanted the video to have a monochrome Ink Spots classicism to it, disrupted by elements of A.I.-generated imagery. This reflects the approach to writing and producing the song – the minimalistic combined with the surreal and disorientating.” According to a statement released by the band, they have added an element of A.I. to their music writing, apparently taking “the entire terms and conditions of LinkedIn, the ancient epic poem Beowulf, 400,000 4Chan forum posts and the teachings of Confucius,” to add a bit of a digital edge to the project. The lyrics, artwork, and aesthetics have also received the A.I. treatment.

This is probably the reasoning behind the release of their new limited-edition lyric book being called “CAPS LOCK ON: Lyrics + Debris 2007-2022”. Really rolling with the current theme. Described by the band as “a full-colour, hardback edition presenting the lyrics to all songs released by the band including b-sides, rarities and new album Raw Data Feel” as well as a “treasure trove of previously unseen images featured alongside the lyrics, including behind-the-scenes archive material of notebooks, chord sheets, set lists and photos.”

Very happy to announce @donothingband, @ph0ebegreen, @lizmusic and @lobjectifband
will be supporting us on our Spring 2022 tour

Tickets on sale now: https://t.co/ktsqVGnGB0 pic.twitter.com/D2OuLEboqZ

— EverythingEverything (@E_E_) February 8, 2022

This all comes alongside a pre-arranged UK tour scheduled for March and April. You can find more information on any of the dates here. See the listings below.

30/3/22 – Tramshed – Cardiff
31/3 – Rock City – Nottingham
1/4 – O2 Academy – Leeds
2/4 – Newcastle University – Newcastle
4/4 – SWG3 Galvanisers – Glasgow
5/4 – O2 Academy  – Liverpool
7/4 – Waterfront – Norwich
8/4 – Academy – Manchester
9/4 – O2 Academy – Birmingham
11/4 – O2 Academy – Bristol
12/4 – Dome – Brighton
13/4 – The Roundhouse – London
16/4 – Academy – Dublin

The video’s release was followed by a live Q&A with Higgs on YouTube. Higgs commented on the creation of the video, “At this point I’d learned texturing, modelling, rigging, animating, how virtual cameras and lights work, so the path to creating ‘Supernormal’ was a matter of putting it all together, alongside some new experiments in physics simulations.” He added that “The idea was to make dozens of tiny, explosive shots of action, ugly and extreme naked characters being distorted, surreal objects and animals, over-saturated colours, bright lights; all these impossible, grotesque images coming at you far too fast to comprehend. I adjusted and experimented until I saw things that excited or disgusted me, then repeated the process over and over again until I was satisfied.” The jam-packed video is certainly a mind-bender, as previous videos from the band are prone to being.

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Higgs explained the inspiration for the song that was written back in 2020 during the composition of Re-Animator. “Supernormal is about supernormal stimuli; highly exaggerated triggers that create a stronger reaction in us than evolution ever intended.” He continued: “Our animal brains can’t help but reach for the bigger, brighter, tastier, sexier, bloodier, more intense experiences. I wanted to create an extremely overwhelming experience in this song and video, it’s about being a slave to our instincts no matter how extreme they become.” The release of Supernormal comes as Everything Everything announce their rescheduled UK & Ireland tour dates for 2022.

We were gutted to have to reschedule our UK & Ireland tour dates due to covid, but are delighted to announce these dates for spring 2022. Tickets are on sale now, and original tickets will be valid.

All other shows – https://t.co/4a9nFOmNsp

Dublin – https://t.co/KOlAqjX8Ku pic.twitter.com/EchHLcHlXs

— EverythingEverything (@E_E_) March 11, 2021

Everything Everything 2022 Tour Dates

30/3/22 – Tramshed –  Cardiff

31/3 –  Rock City – Nottingham

1/4 – O2 Academy – Leeds

2/4 – Newcastle University – Newcastle

4/4 – SWG3 Galvanisers – Glasgow

5/4 – O2 Academy –  Liverpool

7/4 – Waterfront –  Norwich

8/4 – Manchester Academy – Manchester

9/4 – O2 Academy –  Birmingham

11/4 – O2 Academy –  Bristol

12/4 – Brighton Dome – Brighton

13/4 – The Roundhouse – London

16 /4 – O2 Academy – Dublin

 Tickets for the original tour dates remain valid. Tickets available to buy here

The music video matches the sinister tone of the track perfectly, depicting the 4-piece driving round an estate, while being stalked by a looming, skateboarding zombie. As the video progresses, we see shots of the figure in various venues, before joining the four at the video’s end.

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The video was directed by the band’s vocalist Johnathan Higgs alongside Kit Monteith. When describing the music video the band stated in an Instagram post, “Something has risen and lives again. Witness the re-animation of a troubled soul.”

‘Black Hyena’, as well as the other tracks from ‘RE-ANIMATOR’, have received rave reviews, with the Independent giving the album five stars, and acclaimed critic Roisin Murphy stating, “Re-Animator packs global anxiety and paranoia into exquisitely crafted songs.” The band plan to take the new album to the stage, with a national tour planned for 2021.

See the tour dates below:

March 2021
19/03/21 –Rock City- Nottingham,
20/03/21 –O2 Academy- Birmingham
22/03/21 – UEA- Norwich
23/0321 – O2 Academy- Liverpool
25/03/21 –Academy- Manchester
26/03/21 – SWG3- Galvanizers, Glasgow
27/03/21 –O2 Academy- Newcastle,
29/03/21 –O2 Academy, Leeds
30/03/21 –O2 Academy, Bristol,

April 2021
01/04/21 –Roundhouse- London,
03/04/21 –Dome- Brighton,
05/04/21–Olympia Theatre- Dublin

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RE-ANIMATOR is out now. We’re so proud of this record. It points to a new phase for our band. We were inspired by bigger, warmer, more human and universal ideas than ever before. We think you’re going to love it. Listen via the link in our bio.⁠

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The band discussed their process and inspiration in a press release, saying, “We started to notice a lot of online dejection at the state of the world that young people stand to inherit. It was nihilistic, but perfectly understandable and basically rational.”

They continued to explain that “They are inheriting a rapidly warming planet with few jobs and little affordable housing, created by previous generations who seem utterly unapologetic. The attitude is ‘We fucked it, now it’s your problem so you fix it.’ It’s shameful that we’re relying on fifteen year olds to lead the way. We wanted to satirise all of that.”

The video for final single ‘Big Climb’ is out now, and has 6,000 views already. It shows the group working in an office, carrying their instruments in some shots, and interspersed with clips of horrific events the climate crisis has caused. The goal is to show their audience a take on society’s ignorance of climate change while it encourages workers to get back to their capitalist jobs, despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

To celebrate the album’s completion, the band announced a virtual reality concert entitled ‘Virtual RE-ANIMATOR’, with one show taking place yesterday, and one today. It saw Everything Everything perform a full live show including songs from the new album and previous hits, using visual elements to captivate and impress viewers. Furthermore, some fans were able to meet the band, as well as partake in the virtual reality fun themselves.

Everything Everything have plans to play their first headline UK & Ireland tour in 2021. Find tickets on their website, and all dates below.

19/03/2021 – Rock City, Nottingham
20/03 – O2 Academy – Birmingham
22/03 – UEA – Norwich
23/03 – O2 Academy – Liverpool
25/03 – Manchester Academy – Manchester
26/03 – SWG3 – Glasgow
27/03 – O2 Academy – Newcastle
29/03 – O2 Academy – Leeds
30/03 – O2 Academy – Bristol
01/04 – Roundhouse – London
03/04 – Dome – Brighton
05/04 – Olympia Theatre – Dublin

Check out the full track-list for ‘RE-ANIMATOR’ below.

1. Lost Powers
2. Big Climb
3. It Was A Monstering
4. Planets
5. Moonlight
6. Arch Enemy
7. Lord Of The Trapdoor
8. Black Hyena
9. In Birdsong
10. The Actor
11. Violent Sun

Titled ‘Everything Everything: Virtual RE-ANIMATOR’, the show is an interactive virtual reality event in partnership with Sansar running over 10th and 11th September. The band will perform a full live show including songs from the new album and previous hits, using visual elements to captivate and impress viewers. Furthermore, fans can meet the band and each other, as well as partake in the virtual reality fun themselves.

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Excited to unveil VIRTUAL RE-ANIMATOR, our first live virtual reality show. This will be happening on 10th and 11th September. Head to our website for more information and tickets to the show. Link in bio. ⁠

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General admission tickets are $13 each or $20 for VIP access, which allows ticket-holders to attend a virtual ‘meet and greet’ with the band. Tickets are on sale now but they’re likely to go fast, and along with every purchase comes access to a limited line of ‘Virtual RE-ANIMATOR’ merch.

Collaborators Sansar said in a press release, “We are thrilled to be in partnership with a cutting edge band like ‘Everything Everything’ who clearly sees the future of global virtual performances and the deep engagement it brings to their fans.”

They continued to surprise fans with more news; “We are releasing new fan features specifically for their performances that showcase how a virtual experience can surpass even the awesome reality of live. The creative canvas of virtual concerts is boundless, and we welcome ‘Everything Everything’ with open arms!”

Everything Everything gave their thoughts, saying, “We can’t play shows IRL, but we can do a couple IVR. We might as well try to have some fun with the limitations we all find ourselves under. This is the first chance we’ve had to play a lot of these songs. Come and join us in another dimension. See you in the Interzone.”

Check out the showtimes below:

Show 1 – 10/09/2020 – 8pm BST
Show 2 – 11/09/2020 – 9am BST

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Tonight, @anniemac will be premiering ‘Violent Sun’ as her Hottest Record In The World on @bbcradio1 at 19:30 BST, and interviewing Jon. The video we made will then be premiering over on YouTube at 19:45 BST. Join the countdown now with the link in our bio.

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It has been revealed that ‘Violent Sun’ is the closing track on the album, and it was described in a press release as being “a first in the Everything Everything catalogue.” The release went on to say, “It’s a propulsive rush of melody with a cinematic scale…The band wanted it to feel like the last song played on the dance floor.” Now that fans can listen to the song, this is very apparent in the fast-paced vocal line and suspended synths.

Frontman Jonathan Higgs said himself that “‘Violent Sun’ is about the feeling that something terrible is approaching fast, and you want to hold on to this moment forever.” In his interview with Annie Mac, he expressed this same sentiment, as well as going on to discuss the album, his musical process, and his fans, saying, “every time we’ve put something out that we’re really proud of ourselves, people react really well.”

The band capture their vision for the song in the music video, also released yesterday. Though still in isolation, each member used a GoPro to film themselves running through various locations. The video has gained 13,000 views on YouTube, and still counting.

In his interview for Radio 1, Higgs also mentioned the upcoming ‘RE-ANIMATOR’ tour which Everything Everything will embark on in March 2020. This is to be their first headlining tour in years, but the future of live music is still so uncertain, given the Covid-19 pandemic. He told Mac, “It feels amazing to finally put something in stone. I mean, who knows what the world will be like by then, but we’re looking ahead to March and hopefully we’ll be able to go on the road again.” Tickets are available now from the bands website.

Shows will take place at numerous incredible venues, including London’s Roundhouse, the Brighton Dome, and Olympia Theatre in Dublin. Tickets will be available from 9am next Friday, 31st July, with a pre-sale beginning at the same time on Wednesday 29th July for fans who pre-order the upcoming album from the band’s website.

We have good news – we’re back on the road in the UK & Ireland in March 2021! For early access to tickets, you can pre-order the album from our official webstore here: https://t.co/UTPrhzMQft pic.twitter.com/djWbyiTTrO

— EverythingEverything (@E_E_) July 24, 2020

The tour will be in promotion of their upcoming fifth studio album, ‘RE-ANIMATOR’, which is due for release on 11th September after being postponed due to the coronavirus. Everything Everything said in a press release, “We’re sorry to announce that we have to push the RE-ANIMATOR release date back a bit to 11th September, due to COVID-related delays.”

The went on to assure fans, “We’re disappointed too, of course, but we now have the opportunity to work on something exciting for around the new release date. Thank you for bearing with us; we can’t wait for you to hear the album in full, we’re really proud of it.”

So far three singles have been released from the album: ‘In Birdsong’, ‘Arch Enemy’, and ‘Planets’. They are available on all platforms and have gained thousands of views on Youtube.

Everything Everything formed in 2007 and shared their debut album in 2010. They have so far put out four studio albums and been nominated for multiple Ivor Novello Awards and Mercury Prizes. The band members are Jonathan Higgs (lead vocals, guitar), Alex Robertshaw (guitar), Jeremy Pritchard (bass), and Michael Spearman (drums).

Check out the full tour dates below.

19/03/2021 – Rock City – Nottingham, UK
20/03 – O2 Academy – Birmingham, UK
22/03 – UEA – Norwich, UK
23/03 – O2 Academy – Liverpool, UK
25/03 – Academy – Manchester, UK
26/03 – SWG3 – Glasgow, UK
27/03 – O2 Academy – Newcastle, UK
29/03 – O2 Academy – Leeds, UK
30/03 – O2 Academy – Bristol, UK
01/04 – Roundhouse – London, UK
03/04 – Dome – Brighton, UK
05/04 – Olympia Theatre – Dublin, Ireland

And check out the upcoming ‘RE-ANIMATOR’ album track-list:

1. ‘Lost Powers’ (Unreleased)
2. ‘Big Climb’ (Unreleased)
3. ‘It Was A Monstering’ (Unreleased)
4. ‘Planets’
5. ‘Moonlight’ (Unreleased)
6. ‘Arch Enemy’
7. ‘Lord Of The Trapdoor’ (Unreleased)
8. ‘Black Hyena’ (Unreleased)
9. ‘In Birdsong’
10. ‘The Actor’ (Unreleased)
11. ‘Violent Sun’ (Unreleased)

‘Planets’. Out Now. Chat with Jonathan and Jeremy on Instagram Live tonight at 19:00 BST.

Listen/watch here: https://t.co/Jo7SlvJjxq

Pre-order the new album here: https://t.co/q0sePLUbuy pic.twitter.com/xUoJg03iFU

— EverythingEverything (@E_E_) June 18, 2020

Unlike the previous two efforts, “Planets” arrived with little to no fanfare. Snippets of the song were teased on Everything Everything’s official Instagram account yesterday, referred to as “Bigots In The Batcave” (the opening words to “Planets”) by a fictitious group called Infinity Face (an old name Everything Everything used to go by). To those who hadn’t already figured out what was coming, the band dropped the music video at midnight last night, revealing that they are doing an Instagram livestream at 7pm today to provide more details about the song.

While “Planets” shares the upbeat synth lines of “Arch Enemy”, thankfully for all our sakes frontman Jonathan Higgs opted to give us a break from visual torment when directing this video. Dancing globs of gelatin and rupturing fatbergs have been swapped out for the cutesy antics of a chimpanzee hand puppet. “Can you love me?/More than the planets”, the cuddly fella mimes along to Higgs’ voice. It’s hardly on par with the visceral torment in these lyrics from “Arch Enemy”: “Sphinx of grease, faceless bloat/Sacrifice in your name/Blubber mount, sewage moon/Jets like wire cut your body, they/Slice your teats”.

The uncanniness of our simian cousins – so parallel to our own existence yet aeons apart – is a frequent concern of the band’s, popping up in older cuts “Schoolin”, “Distant Past”, and “NASA Is On Your Side”. But at the start of the video at least, there’s no evolutionary existential dread here (though I wouldn’t be surprised if the goofy dancing chimp was a subtle dig at Coldplay).

“‘Planets’ is a song about calling out to be loved, feeling unworthy and finding the love of the universe instead”, says Higgs in The Line of Best Fit’s coverage of the story – an oddly literal analysis of the song’s refrain from a man whose lyricism is usually so inscrutable. Perhaps this evening’s livestream will shed some new light on things; it’s hard to not ignore the emphasis placed on a single aeroplane and a solitary bee, and their associations with the effects of climate change. It would certainly put a new spin on the song’s central question “Can you love me?/More than the planets”. Watch the music video below to decide for yourself.

Recorded at London’s RAK studios with producer John Congleton, Re-Animator will be released on the 21st of August via Infinity Industries. You can preorder the album through Everything Everything’s website here.

Everything Everything first debuted “Arch Enemy” on the 13th of May during Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show, confirming that it was the second single (after “In Birdsong”) from their rumoured upcoming fifth album Re-Animator. Unlike with the release of their previous single, “Arch Enemy” initially dropped with no video attached. But that changed on Monday, when the group posted a clip onto Twitter promising the music video would premier at 6pm on Wednesday via their YouTube channel (yesterday).

The music video for ‘Arch Enemy’ will be premiering this Wednesday 27th May on @YouTube at 18:00 BST. pic.twitter.com/rA6Jdo5pTj

— EverythingEverything (@E_E_) May 25, 2020

Similar to the rollout of “In Birdsong” – which preceded the unsettling music video with idyllic soundbites of literal birdsong – Monday’s clip showed a camera panned across a sunlit digitally-rendered high street, before hovering forebodingly over a manhole. Sure enough, yesterday’s video has us take a dive down into the gutters below the city. The furious, throbbing mass of gelatin dancers writhe to the song, whose bouncy synths akin to Saint Etienne’s cover of “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” sit at odds with the video’s uneasy subject matter. And we’ve not even reached the gross part yet. As the glutinous mob makes its way past frontman Jonathan Higgs’ head, clumsily green-screened into the foreground singing “Fatberg you smile/With your grave wax eyes”, we encounter the fatberg in question, a fever-dreamt amalgamation resembling the unholy spawn of Crazy Frog and Jabba the Hutt. The dancers convulse in an orgiastic frenzy before the fatberg explodes upwards out the manhole, consuming the entire city in a tsunami of… well, you know what.   

Tonight at 18:00 BST, the music video for ‘Arch Enemy’ will be premiering on @YouTube Join the premiere countdown now: https://t.co/1JfbN6ZDM8 pic.twitter.com/pQQfiHPV6s — EverythingEverything (@E_E_) May 27, 2020

If you feel like trying to make sense of all that, Higgs stated in a press release that “‘Arch Enemy’ sees a modern-day protagonist searching for a meaningful God. Finding only a congregation of greed, toxicity, and waste, in the form of a sentient fatberg in the sewer, he duly prays to it, willing it to purge the decadent world above that has created it. These growing grease mountains are a curious juxtaposition of the modern and the ancient; a brand new example of archaic squalor”.

The official music video for ‘Arch Enemy’ is out now. Watch here: https://t.co/1JfbN6ZDM8 pic.twitter.com/VGI6LvWkbS

— EverythingEverything (@E_E_) May 27, 2020

Recorded at London’s RAK studios with producer John Congleton, Re-Animator will be released on the 21st of August via Infinity Industries. You can preorder the album through their website here, and you can watch the music video for “Arch Enemy” below. Just make sure you haven’t eaten anything in the last five minutes.